—Joost: The P2P online premium video streaming company Joost, founded by Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are no longer involved but it’s still kicking about under current owners Adconion, who have today promoted Maria Cadbury to the position of general manager. Under Adconion, the company has pivoted to become a…

New forecasts out today for the mobile music market from Juniper Research: it will bring in revenues of $5.5 billion by 2015, compared to $3.1 billion last year. What’s interesting is that mobile music might just turn out to be more competitive than the digital market overall. While digital music…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be rethinking how it delivers mobile music—shuttering its Ovi Unlimited music service—but it is not giving up on digital entertainment altogether. The Swedish VOD and streaming site Voddler has announced that it has picked up an additional $8 million in funding, with this round led by…

Since Napster exploded into the public consciousness when it was founded 12 years ago, the world of digital piracy has been associated with a particular type of software—“peer-to-peer” download services. (Sometimes fairly, sometimes not.) Either way, 2011 is likely to be the year when P2P is finally eclipsed by “cyberlockers,”…

The internet telephony service Skype got a good deal out of the net neutrality vote earlier this week, with the FCC deciding that Skype and other voice services like it could not be banned or throttled on broadband networks. But services in the past 24 hours seem to show that…

The Pirate Bay’s co-founders today lost their appeal against convictions for encouraging illegal filesharing, and have had their collective fine increased by $2m (£1.3m) to $6.5m (£4.1m). A Stockholm court of appeal ruled that Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom remain guilty of helping Pirate Bay users illicitly share…

Looks like the sale saga of The Pirate Bay may not be over quite yet. The sale of the site’s domain and trademarks to Swedish software firm Global Gaming Factory X was never completed last fall. But Global Gaming Factory X now says it expects a deal to be done…

—Virgin Media: After Telefonica suggested search engines pay ISPs for carrying their traffic, Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) speaks. “It’s a legitimate to question how this demand will be managed,” a spokesperson said. (Via ISPreview.co.uk.) —Onet.pl: The ISP subsidiary of Polish broadcaster TVN is launching a new VOD service called OnetVOD.…

In what could become a significant case in content companies’ battle against piracy in Europe, Italy’s supreme court has ruled that ISPs in the country must block access to Pirate Bay. Italy had tried to block the Bit Torrent tracker in 2008 by issuing a decree from the deputy public…

A big setback Down Under for Hollywood studios: A federal judge in Australia has ruled that ISP iiNet is not liable for copyright infringements that get made by its customers. The precedent-setting decision flies in the face of the three-strikes laws being formed in other markets like neighboring New Zealand,…

—Ofcom/BSkyB: Ofcom says a final decision on forcing Sky to cut wholesale channel prices will come in March. The board is due to meet this week as part of the deliberation process only. Competing pay TV providers, such as BT (NYSE: BT), have been lobbying for a review of the…

It may be hyped as the saviour of the music business, but Spotify has just earned itself a similar kind of ban in academia that once troubled its less legal forebear Napster. The venerable Oxford University has blocked the music-streaming application on its network, claiming excessive use of it is…

You could shut down all the P2P BitTorrent trackers in the world but web pirates would still find other ways to share files directly with each other. At least, that’s the warning from the British Phonographic Industry which, in a survey conducted by Harris Interactive, found that, while P2P BitTorrent…

It’s traditionally been the home of illegal file-sharing in Europe, but since the introduction of strong anti-piracy laws this year Sweden has become a lot less hospitable to freeloading P2P nerds. The IPRED law—which obliges ISPs to hand over personal details of suspected offenders to rights holders—is credited for a…

—Spanish piracy bill: The Spanish government wants to introduce a piracy-busting law. As Torrentfreak and Elpais.com report, the New Sustainable Economy Law bill is being drafted after long and fruitless discussions between politicians and ISPs. Unlike in France and the UK, the Spanish government says it isn’t threatening to disconnect…

It calls itself “the ultimate BitTorrent source”, but P2P tracker Mininova has now removed almost all links to copyrighted content after complying with a cease-and-desist court ruling in August from Dutch entertainment rightsholder group Brein. As the site’s staff write in a blog post, only content uploaded via the site’s…

Has the tide turned against bedroom P2P file-sharers in the music industry’s epic fight against piracy? The IFPI’s branch in Sweden—the home of illegal file-sharing—is reporting that Swedish music sales rose 18 percent in the first nine months of the year, after seven years of consecutive decline, following the introduction…

Well, if you can’t beat ‘em… Finnish games developer RedLynx is releasing limited versions of its own games on the day of release to P2P file-sharing sites in the hope that gamers will shell out for a full version. Speaking at the Develop Liverpool conference on Thursday (via Gamesindustry.biz), CEO…

Adults who download music from unofficial channels also spend £30 per year more on physical and digital music than people who don’t, according to a survey by the Demos thinktank of 1,008 people aged 16 to 50. The study - funded by Virgin Media (NSDQ: VMED) - says a third…